SIGCAS Team
Abstract
Mention to computer scientists, gliders, glider guns, birth and death rules and they smile remembering their efforts to study societal life. October marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of John Conway's game of Life in Martin Garner's Mathematical Games column [1], For the lay person with no knowledge of Life, it's difficulty to imagine how popular a single person game with only a single move (i.e. setting the initial conditions) could be.
- Garner, M., (1970). Mathematical Games: The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitair game "life". Scientific American 223, 120--123. https://web.stanford.edu/class/sts145/Library/life.pdf.Google Scholar
Cross Ref
- Rendell, P. (2001). A Turing Machine in Conway's Game Life. https://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/teaching/271fall09/Turing-Machine-Life.pdf.Google Scholar
- Roberts, S. (2020). Life, in all its glory. New York Times. December 29, 2020, D1--D5.Google Scholar
- New York Times, (2020). John Horton Conway, a 'Magical Genius' in math, dies at 82. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/technology/john-horton-conway-dead-coronavirus.html.Google Scholar
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